Edinburgh Informatics Data Science PhD

[persistent_homology]

Does anyone have any comments on this program?

It is in the Edinburgh Informatics department, it has a taught 1st year then 3 years research.

My interests are in machine learning.

 

I would like to know if people have heard of it in America? Will I be hurting my career choices if I were to accept them over say University of Michigan? One fun thing is that the teaching load will be more like 6 hours a week compared with 15 or more in the US.

 

I was quite impressed when I interviewed, but they are the only place I've gotten to see in the flesh.

 

Other offers: OSU, CMU, Alberta, Cornell, Wisconisn-Madison all for statistics but I will be doing machine learning more than stats.

[compiler_guy]

Does anyone have any comments on this program?

It is in the Edinburgh Informatics department, it has a taught 1st year then 3 years research.

My interests are in machine learning.

 

I would like to know if people have heard of it in America? Will I be hurting my career choices if I were to accept them over say University of Michigan? One fun thing is that the teaching load will be more like 6 hours a week compared with 15 or more in the US.

 

I was quite impressed when I interviewed, but they are the only place I've gotten to see in the flesh.

 

Other offers: OSU, CMU, Alberta, Cornell, Wisconisn-Madison all for statistics but I will be doing machine learning more than stats.

I didn't hear of that program, but CMU, Cornell, and Wisconisn-Madison are awesome.

 

Have you considered visiting other campuses? you might be positively surprised.

Edited March 6, 2014 by compiler_guy

[moolriaz]

Does anyone have any comments on this program?

It is in the Edinburgh Informatics department, it has a taught 1st year then 3 years research.

My interests are in machine learning.

 

I would like to know if people have heard of it in America? Will I be hurting my career choices if I were to accept them over say University of Michigan? One fun thing is that the teaching load will be more like 6 hours a week compared with 15 or more in the US.

 

I was quite impressed when I interviewed, but they are the only place I've gotten to see in the flesh.

 

Other offers: OSU, CMU, Alberta, Cornell, Wisconisn-Madison all for statistics but I will be doing machine learning more than stats.

 

I'm currently at Edinburgh and know people in this programme and have taken courses with all of the advisors in ML @ Edinburgh ie Amos Storkey, Chris Williams, Iain Murray, Charles Sutton and a few more. Edinburgh has a very good rep in the US, when I interviewed at CMU etc and did exchanges abroad at some good US universities I have always had favourable comments about Edinburgh Informatics as it is if not the largest then one of the top three CS/ML/AI research departments in Europe. ICML was at Edinburgh in 2012. Informatics @ Edinburgh has more faculty than Oxford and Cambridge combined and high quality research in ML. I would not consider any of the universities you have offers from other than CMU, and certainly not University of Michigan. Many of the staff in Informatics carry out research with their US peers - Stanford, CMU, MIT - I would say more so than any other UK university, so I don't think you should worry about that factor at all.

[SaulGoodman]

Hey persistent_homology,

Can you please reply and tell what you decided to do and why? I am in a very similar situation currently and this would be helpful for me.